Carrying a bold message of inclusion, transgender rights and a sharp rebuke to US President Donald Trump, Miss Spain's Angela Ponce is blazing a trail as the first transgender contestant in Miss Universe's 66-year history.

Thailand is getting used to being in the world spotlight. After last month’s dramatic cave rescue in Chiang Rai, it’s preparing to host the 2018 Miss Universe pageant. And the competition to be held in Bangkok in December will feature the first transgender contestant in the pageant’s nearly seven-decade history – Angela Ponce of Spain.

In the aftermath of the social media coming out of Angelina Mead King as a transwoman that sent kibitzers into a tizzy, came many questions that we have heard at least once before—when BB Gandanghari came out, when Caitlyn Jenner debuted her new identity on the Vanity Fair cover.

Millennials know Bruce Jenner as the family patriarch in the hit reality TV series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” But more people remember him best as the good-looking all-American track-and-field superstar who, after breaking the world record in decathlon, shined like a demigod in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

A reader sent in the following intriguing questions: “Isn’t it true that a spirit has no sex? I mean, is it neither male nor female? So how come people say that a spirit that manifests to them is either a man or a woman?